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Announcement for a 4-day applied rationality retreat at CEEALAR in Blackpool, UK in April 2025, featuring CFAR-style workshops and participant-organized activities for 15 attendees at £120 including accommodation and meals. The event builds on previous successful iterations and is aimed at individuals seeking to apply rationality techniques to personal challenges.
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- •4-day retreat hosted at CEEALAR in Blackpool, UK during April 2025, capacity limited to 15 attendees
- •Features workshops based on Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) methods alongside participant-organized unconference sessions
- •Cost is £120 per person, inclusive of accommodation and meals, with applications closing February 22nd, 2025
- •Builds on previous successful iterations with high attendee satisfaction ratings
- •Targeted at individuals interested in using rationality techniques to address personal challenges
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# Blackpool Applied Rationality Unconference 2025
By Henry Prowbell, emily.fan
Published: 2025-02-01
**TL;DR Join us for 4 days of applied rationality workshops and activities at the EA Hotel this April. Apply **[**here**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddCaDZSM-oyw0KXId20BjA1_MSz6fxfrcHJjTrDoB7nx3mKw/viewform?usp=header) **by 22nd February.**
In April we’re hosting an intimate 4-day applied rationality unconference/retreat hosted at [CEEALAR](http://ceealar.org/) (aka the EA Hotel). Come along and make new friends while dedicating time to working through your life’s biggest challenges using [CFAR](https://rationality.org/) and CFAR-adjacent techniques.
Previous years’ schedules have included fun rationalist-themed things like…
| * Hamming Circles * Paired Gendlin Focusing * Circling * Double Cruxing on the beach * Using Rationalist Role Models as Shoulder Advisors * Telos & Failures of Rationality * CFAR techniques tutoring wheel * Lightning Talks * Nature Walks | * Systemizing Mindset * Goal Factoring * Quests versus Goals * Building a Bulletproof Post-Retreat Implementation Plan * Is Rapid Psychological Growth Possible? * Debugging Your Trigger Action Plans * Shadow Work and Masks * Awareness & Embodiment * Meta-Strategic Brainstorming |
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Essential Information
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### **When: **Thursday evening to Sunday evening on the 1st, 2nd or 3rd week of April 2025 (vote for your preference on the application form)
### **Where:** [CEEALAR](http://ceealar.org/) in Blackpool, UK.
### **Price:** £120 per person, which includes accommodation and food (but if cost is the only thing stopping you applying, let us know).
### **Who should join: **Anyone who is excited about using applied rationality to tackle problems in their lives and would enjoy spending a weekend with ~20 other similarly excited people. Prior knowledge of [CFAR](https://rationality.org/) techniques is helpful but not required.
### **Apply Here:** [Fill in this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddCaDZSM-oyw0KXId20BjA1_MSz6fxfrcHJjTrDoB7nx3mKw/viewform?usp=header) by 23:59 UTC+0 on 22nd February. The sooner the better as we will be accepting people on a rolling basis and space is limited to 15 attendees only.
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+++ **Give me some background about the retreat**
The Applied Rationality Unconference started in 2023 as a small unconference-style weekend retreat for [CFAR](https://rationality.org/) (Center for Applied Rationality) alumni. We had fun, talked a lot about CFAR-style applied rationality and helped each other make genuine progress on some of the most important bottlenecks in our lives. 100% of attendees rated the experience 8/10 or higher, and it was one of my favourite weekends of that year.
In November 2024 we ran a second retreat, this time opening
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